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The string of an archer's bow.
- 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 191:
  For an instant he glanced along the polished shaft, drawing the bowstring far back, that the arrow might pierce through the heart for which it was aimed.
  Category:English terms with quotations#BOWSTRING
(historical Category:English terms with historical senses#BOWSTRING) The string of an archer's bow, as used by the Turks for strangling offenders.

Derived terms

(string of an archer's bow): bowstring bridge, bowstring girder, bowstring hemp, bowstring knot

Translations

string of an archer's bow

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Altai:
Southern Altai: кириш (kiriš)Category:Terms with Southern Altai translations#BOWSTRING
Amharic: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Amharic#BOWSTRING
Arabic: وَتَر (ar) m (watar)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#BOWSTRING
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Assyrian Neo-Aramaic#BOWSTRING
Armenian: աղեղնալար (hy) (aġeġnalar)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#BOWSTRING
Azerbaijani: kirişCategory:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#BOWSTRING
Belarusian: цеціва́ f (cjecivá)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#BOWSTRING
Bengali: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Bengali#BOWSTRING
Bulgarian: тетива́ f (tetivá)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#BOWSTRING
Burmese: လေးကြိုး (my) (le:krui:)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#BOWSTRING
Cahuilla: 'alxawillCategory:Terms with Cahuilla translations#BOWSTRING
Catalan: corda (ca) fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#BOWSTRING
Chinese:
Cantonese: 弓弦 (gung¹ jin⁴)Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#BOWSTRING, 弦 (jin⁴)Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#BOWSTRING

Dungan: гунщян (gunxi͡an)Category:Terms with Dungan translations#BOWSTRING

Mandarin: 弓弦 (zh) (gōngxián)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BOWSTRING, 弦 (zh) (xián)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BOWSTRING
Chuvash: хирлӳ (hirlü)Category:Terms with Chuvash translations#BOWSTRING
Coptic: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Coptic#BOWSTRING
Czech: tětiva (cs) fCategory:Terms with Czech translations#BOWSTRING
Danish: buestreng cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#BOWSTRING
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Dhivehi#BOWSTRING
Dutch: boogpees (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BOWSTRING, boogstreng fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#BOWSTRING
Esperanto: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Esperanto#BOWSTRING
Estonian: vibunöörCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#BOWSTRING
Finnish: jänne (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#BOWSTRING
French: corde (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#BOWSTRING
Friulian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Friulian#BOWSTRING
Georgian: ლარი (ka) (lari)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#BOWSTRING, ლამბი (lambi)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#BOWSTRING
German: Bogensehne (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#BOWSTRING
Greek:
Ancient Greek: νευρά f (neurá)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#BOWSTRING
Gujarati: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Gujarati#BOWSTRING
Hindi: ज्या (hi) f (jyā)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BOWSTRING, प्रत्यंचा (hi) f (pratyañcā)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#BOWSTRING
Hungarian: íjhúr (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#BOWSTRING
Icelandic: bogastrengur mCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#BOWSTRING
Ido: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Ido#BOWSTRING
Interlingua: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Interlingua#BOWSTRING
Interlingue: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Interlingue#BOWSTRING
Italian: corda (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#BOWSTRING
Japanese: 弓弦 (ゆづる, yuzuru, ゆみづる, yumizuru, ゆんづる, yunzuru)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BOWSTRING, 弦 (ja) (つる, tsuru)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#BOWSTRING
Kannada: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Kannada#BOWSTRING
Kazakh: адырна (adyrna)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#BOWSTRING
Khmer: បន្លោះ (km) (bɑnlɑh)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#BOWSTRING, ចាប (km) (caap)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#BOWSTRING
Korean: 궁현(弓弦) (gunghyeon)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BOWSTRING, 활줄 (hwaljul)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BOWSTRING, 활시위 (hwalsiwi)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BOWSTRING
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ژێ (jê)Category:Terms with Central Kurdish translations#BOWSTRING

Northern Kurdish: jih (ku)Category:Terms with Northern Kurdish translations#BOWSTRING
Kyrgyz: жаанын жиби (jaanın jibi)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#BOWSTRING
Lao: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Lao#BOWSTRING
Latvian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Latvian#BOWSTRING
Lithuanian: templė fCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#BOWSTRING
Lü: ᦉᦻᦂᦳᧂ (ṡaayk̇ung)Category:Terms with Lü translations#BOWSTRING
Macedonian: тетива f (tetiva)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#BOWSTRING
Malay: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Malay#BOWSTRING
Malayalam: ഞാൺ (ml) (ñāṇ)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#BOWSTRING, വിൽഞാൺ (vilñāṇ)Category:Terms with Malayalam translations#BOWSTRING
Manchu: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Manchu#BOWSTRING
Marathi: प्रत्यंचा f (pratyañcā)Category:Terms with Marathi translations#BOWSTRING
Mon: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Mon#BOWSTRING
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хөвч (mn) (xövč)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#BOWSTRING

Mongolian script: ᠬᠥᠪᠴᠢ (köbči)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#BOWSTRING
Norwegian:
Bokmål: buestreng mCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#BOWSTRING
Nuosu: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Nuosu#BOWSTRING
Occitan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Occitan#BOWSTRING
Odia: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Odia#BOWSTRING
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: тѧтива f (tętiva)Category:Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations#BOWSTRING
Old English: bogan strenġ mCategory:Terms with Old English translations#BOWSTRING
Pacoh: tarxángCategory:Terms with Pacoh translations#BOWSTRING
Persian:
Classical Persian: زِه (zih)Category:Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#BOWSTRING Category:Terms with Classical Persian translations#BOWSTRING Category:Terms with Persian translations#BOWSTRING

Iranian Persian: زِه (zeh)Category:Persian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#BOWSTRING Category:Terms with Iranian Persian translations#BOWSTRING Category:Terms with Persian translations#BOWSTRING

Middle Persian: 𐭦𐭩𐭧 (zyḥ /⁠zīh⁠/)Category:Terms with Middle Persian translations#BOWSTRING
Plautdietsch: Boageseid fCategory:Terms with Plautdietsch translations#BOWSTRING
Polish: cięciwa (pl) fCategory:Terms with Polish translations#BOWSTRING
Portuguese: corda de arco fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#BOWSTRING
Punjabi: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Punjabi#BOWSTRING
Romagnol: cörda fCategory:Terms with Romagnol translations#BOWSTRING
Romanian: coardă (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#BOWSTRING
Russian: тетива́ (ru) f (tetivá)Category:Terms with Russian translations#BOWSTRING
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тѐтива fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#BOWSTRING

Latin: tètiva (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#BOWSTRING
Shan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Shan#BOWSTRING
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Sinhalese#BOWSTRING
Slovak: tetiva fCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#BOWSTRING
Slovene: tetiva fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#BOWSTRING
Spanish: cuerda (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BOWSTRING
Swedish: bågsträng cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#BOWSTRING
Tajik: зеҳ (zeh)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#BOWSTRING
Tamil: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Tamil#BOWSTRING
Tatar: кереш (tt) (kereş)Category:Terms with Tatar translations#BOWSTRING
Telugu: అల్లె (te) (alle)Category:Terms with Telugu translations#BOWSTRING
Thai: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Thai#BOWSTRING
Tibetan: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Tibetan#BOWSTRING
Tocharian B: wäntalyiCategory:Terms with Tocharian B translations#BOWSTRING
Turkish: kiriş (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#BOWSTRING, yay kirişCategory:Terms with Turkish translations#BOWSTRING
Turkmen: kirişCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#BOWSTRING
Tuvan: кириш (kiriş)Category:Terms with Tuvan translations#BOWSTRING
Ukrainian: тятива́ f (tjatyvá)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#BOWSTRING
Unami: hatapiatàkwCategory:Terms with Unami translations#BOWSTRING, hakisapiCategory:Terms with Unami translations#BOWSTRING, tënikànCategory:Terms with Unami translations#BOWSTRING
Uyghur: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Uyghur#BOWSTRING
Uzbek: kamalak ipiCategory:Terms with Uzbek translations#BOWSTRING
Vietnamese: dây cungCategory:Terms with Vietnamese translations#BOWSTRING
Volapük: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Volapük#BOWSTRING
Yiddish: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Yiddish#BOWSTRING

Verb

bowstring (third-person singular simple present bowstrings, present participle bowstringing, simple past and past participle bowstrung or bowstringed)Category:English lemmas#BOWSTRING Category:English verbs#BOWSTRING Category:English entries with incorrect language header#BOWSTRING Category:Pages with entries#BOWSTRING Category:Pages with 1 entry#BOWSTRING

(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#BOWSTRING) To strangle with a bowstring.
- 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade:
  When the day broke […] it was high time for her to get up and be bowstrung—a thing very little more pleasant than hanging, only a trifle more genteel.
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- 1909, O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), A Municipal Report
  I have seen (on one of my imaginary tours) the Sultan of Turkey bowstring with his own hands one of his wives who had uncovered her face in public.

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